Patrick Francois
Professor of Economics
Mailing
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Department of Economics
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#997 - 1873 East Mall
Contact Information:
Office: BuTo 1008
Telephone: (604) 822-4608
Fax: (604) 822-5915
Email:
francois@interchange.ubc.ca
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Fields of Interest:
Business Cycles and Growth, Development Economics, Non-profit Organizations, Norms and Institutions
Affiliations:
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO).
Research (Current Work):
Culture and Development
Competition Builds Trust (with Thomas Fujiwara and Tanguy van Ypersele)
Read
a lay summary of this paper in Vox http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3906
Cultivating Trust:Norms, Institutions and the
Implications of Scale (with Chris Bidner)
Cycles
and Growth
Growth, Cycles and
Welfare: A Schumpeterian Perspective (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis)
Intrinsic Business Cycles
with Pro-Cyclical R & D (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis) forthcoming Review of Economic Dynamics
Schumpeterian Restructuring (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis) UPDATED VERSION (May 2008)
On the Job Learning
Managerial Skill Acquisition In the Theory of Economic Development (with Paul Beaudry) UPDATED VERSION (March 2008), forthcoming Review of Economic Studies
The Economics Of Inefficient Technology Use (with Paul Beaudry) UPDATED VERSION (February 2009)
Links to Recent Publications:
Implementation Cycles,
Investment and Growth (with Huw Lloyd-Ellis) International Economic Review, 2008, 49(3), 901-942.
Pro-Social
Motivation and the Delivery of Social Services (with Michael Vlassopoulos) CESifo Economic Studies, 2008, 54: 22-54.
Formalizing Informal
Institutions: Theory and Evidence from a Kenyan Slum (with Siwan Anderson)
in Institutions and Economic Performance,
edited by E. Helpman Harvard University Press, 2008.
Making a Difference RAND Journal of Economics, Autumn 2007, 38(3) 714-732.
Trust, Social Capital
and Economic Development (with Jan Zabojnik), Journal of the European Economics Association,
2005, 3(1) 51-94.
Commons as Insurance and
the Welfare Impact of Privatization (with Jean-Marie Baland), Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89,
211-231.
Animal
Spirits Through Creative Destruction (with Huw
Lloyd-Ellis), American Economic
Review, 2003, 93(3), 530-550.
Contracting
Productivity Growth (with Joanne Roberts), Review of Economic Studies, 2003, 70(1), 59-86.
International Test Rankings:
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